Friendship is a beautiful tapestry woven from shared experiences, mutual support, and the simple joy of companionship. Whether it's the laughter from inside jokes or the comfort of a friend's empathetic ear, the bond of friendship enriches our lives in countless ways. In celebrating these special connections, words often capture emotions that resonate deeply within us. We've curated a collection of 140 friendship quotes and sayings to honor the joy, warmth, and strength that true friends bring into our lives. Let these quotes inspire you, remind you of cherished memories, and perhaps offer the perfect words to express your gratitude to those who stand by your side through thick and thin.
1. “The only true currency in this bankrupt world are the moments you share with someone when you're uncool.” - Cameron Crowe
2. “I enjoyed the meetings, too. It was like having friends.” - J.K. Rowling
3. “When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.” - Henri Nouwen
4. “I wish I had more friends, but people are such jerks. If you can just get most people to leave you alone, you're doing good. If you can find even one person you really like, you're lucky. And if that person can also stand you, you're really lucky.” - Bill Watterson
5. “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.” - J.K. Rowling
6. “A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
7. “From quiet homes and first beginning,Out to the undiscovered ends,There's nothing worth the wear of winning,But laughter and the love of friends.” - Hilaire Belloc - Verses 10 "Dedicatory Ode"
8. “A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.” - Baltasar Gracian
9. “Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.” - Aristotle
10. “It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.” - Mahatma Gandhi
11. “A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals the secret of some hidden treasure.” - Dalai Lama XIV
12. “Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.” - Aristotle
13. “I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.” - Oliver Goldsmith
14. “It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses. ” - Colette
15. “Emtehan kon ke basi jame moradat bedahand Gkharabi cho mara lotfe to abad konad” - Hafez
16. “In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.” - Aristotle
17. “Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.” - Stephen King
18. “Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.” - Henry David Thoreau
19. “Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.” - Paulo Coelho
20. “No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.” - Alfred Lord Tennyson
21. “When time passes, it's the people who knew you whom you want to see; they're the ones you can talk to. When enough time passes, what's it matter what they did to you?” - John Irving
22. “If you were lucky, very lucky indeed, there were one or two people in your life who you could tell the unvarnished truth too, shell and egg. And that these people held the essence of you inside them. The rest would be conversations that ended when night fell, or the dinner part ended.” - Julia Gregson
23. “Wherever I go, I'll always see you. You'll always be with me. And there's no happy ending coming here, no way a story that started on a night that's burned into my heart will end the way I wish it could. You're really gone, no last words, and no matter how many letters I write to you, you're never going to reply. You're never going to say good-bye. So I will. Good-bye, Julia. Thank you for being my friend. Thank you for being you.” - Elizabeth Scott
24. “What was there to be gained by fighting the most evil wizard who has ever existed?" said Black, with a terrible fury in his face. "Only innocent lives, Peter!""You don't understand!" whined Pettigrew. "He would have killed me, Sirius!""THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE DIED!" roared Black. "DIED RATHER THAN BETRAY YOUR FRIENDS, AS WE WOULD HAVE DONE FOR YOU!” - J.K. Rowling
25. “You know Balbec so well - do you have friends in the area?'I have friends wherever there are companies of trees, wounded but not vanquished, which huddle together with touching obstinacy to implore an inclement and pitiless sky.'That is not what I meant,' interrupted my father, as obstinate as the trees and as pitiless as the sky.” - Marcel Proust
26. “I have no talent for making new friends, but oh such genius for fidelity to old ones.” - Daphne duMaurier
27. “When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.” - L.M. Montgomery
28. “Just because I've gone and snagged myself a hot boyfriend doesn't mean I'm going to leave my bestfriend high and dry.” - Becca Fitzpatrick
29. “Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive.” - Terry Pratchett
30. “The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.” - Marcus Tullius Cicero
31. “Which would you choose if you could:pleasure for yourself despite your friendsor a share in their grief?” - Sophocles
32. “A friend is someone whose face you can see in the dark.” - Frances O'Roark Dowell
33. “Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
34. “To live fully, we must learn to use things and love people, and not love things and use people.” - John Powell
35. “I enjoy sharing my books as I do my friends, asking only that you treat them well and see them safely home.” - Ernest Morgan
36. “As we reached the wooded hill that led to the pipe, Cheater said, "Uh-oh.""What's wrong?" I asked."Is anyone here thinking about kicking the crap out of me?" he asked."Not me," I said."Me either," Lucky said."Maybe tomorrow," Flinch told him. "But not at the moment." hidden talents” - David Lubar
37. “On page 607, alluding to the end of my first marriage (and carefully remembering to state that that's none of his business), he very sweetly says that I 'might leave a wife, but not a friend.' Nice try. Neat smear. But he shouldn't be so sure....” - Christopher Hitchens
38. “Hold on little girlShow me what he's done to youStand up little girlA broken heart can't be that badWhen it's through, it's through Fate will twist the both of you So come on baby come on over Let me be the one to show you” - Mr. Big
39. “For the first time, it struck me that when Denver said he'd be my friend for life, he meant it-for better or for worse. The hell of it was, Mr. Ballantine never wanted a friend, especially a black one. But once Denver committed, he stuck. It reminded me of what Jesus told His disciples 'Greater love has no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.” - Ron Hall
40. “I hope we'll be friends forever, together we'll always be. I don't think you understand just how much you mean to me. And one day when we part our ways, we'll think back to the past and think about how happy we are 'cause our friendship will always last.” - Bridget Davis
41. “Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.” - Arthur Conan Doyle
42. “Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?” - Walter Kirn
43. “A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.” - Aesop
44. “What do you most value in your friends?Their continued existence.” - Christopher Hitchens
45. “You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He has no friends.' This, I realized with a pang of pity that I can still remember, was only true as long as everybody agreed to it.” - Christopher Hitchens
46. “We...we could be friends.'We COULD be rare specimens of an exotic breed of dancing African elephants, but we're not. At least, I'M not.” - Neil Gaiman
47. “Perhaps he does not want to be friends with you until he knows what you are like. With owls, it is never easy-come-easy-go.” - T.H. White
48. “I wanted to talk to someone. But who? It’s moments like this, when you need someone the most, that your world seems smallest.” - David Levithan
49. “A dream isn't worth living if you don't have friends to live it with.” - Danielle Johnson
50. “You're well enough looked after now' says Farouq. 'We are your friends. Don't we care about you? All this bitterness, it's in your own mind. To be accepted as a human being, you must behave like one. The more human you act, the more human you'll be.' He spoils the effect of this decent speech by adding with a smirk, 'Four-foot cunt.” - Indra Sinha
51. “It was if we all sensed we'd be gone someday soon in a sudden instant--often it happened in the middle of the night--and didn't want to get involved. Or else it was that none of us wanted to know anybody later on who was the way we were now.” - Richard Ford
52. “I despise the rituals of fake friendship. I wish we could just claw each other's eyes out and call it a day; instead we put on huge radiant smiles and spout compliments until our teeth hurt from the saccharine sweetness of it all.” - Jody Gehrman
53. “It took him a while to figure out that gaining an audience was not the same thing as gaining friends.” - Julia Scheeres
54. “He didn't think he belonged here, so she was making him face some uncomfortable facts. People adapt. People change. You can grow where you're planted.” - Sarah Addison Allen
55. “What If Following Her HeartMeans Rose Could Lose Her Best Friend Forever?” - Richelle Mead
56. “it is a sad truth in life that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed.” - Lemony Snicket
57. “Sorry excuses for hunters and friends. Both of us.” - Suzanne Collins
58. “Nix still held Benny's hand, and her grip tightened to an almost crushing force, grinding his hand bones together. It hurt, but Benny would rather have cut that hand off than take it back at that moment. If it would help Nix through this, he'd give her a pair of pliers and a vise so she could do a proper job.” - Jonathan Maberry
59. “Suddenly Saffron had a picture in her mind of Sarah waiting at the bottom of the wall, and she was angry with herself.Something changed in Saffron at that moment. She knew all about feeling left out.... That was why she wanted her angel so badly; proof that she mattered as much as anyone else."I couldn't really climb the wall," she said. "And if I could, what if I got caught? What would I say?""You'd think of something.""No. It was a stupid idea. Let's try your way, early in the morning.""Before breakfast?""Yes. All right Mission Control?""All right," said Sarah. "All right, Superhero.” - Hilary McKay
60. “Your Worst Enemy Could Be Your Best Friend && Your Best Friend Your Worst Enemy” - Bob Marley
61. “I smile. I smile all the time, but you're just not around to see it these days".” - Sarra Manning
62. “In making friends, she was wary of people who foster dependency and feed on it. She had been involved with a few--the blind attract them, and they are the enemy.” - Thomas Harris
63. “But what Mom never told me is that along the way, you find sisters, and they find you. Girls are cool that way.” - Adriana Trigiani
64. “Once Kimmy and Bobby walked in Taco Bell they saw their two friends already sitting at the table, and Kimmy and Bobby ordered their food before they joined them. “What’s up?” Manning asked.“Not much, just hanging out,” Bobby answered. “And of course the two of you are always hanging out,” Dave said, nodding toward Kimmy.Kimmy smiled. “Of course we are always hanging out. That’s what you do when you’ve got a best friend, Dave. You’ll learn that maybe one day when you have a best friend.” - Lynette Mather
65. “Most Americans watch Friends rather than having friends.” - Robert Putnam
66. “Of course what I'm about to share isn't true for me but...Friends, somebody said, are "god's apology for relations." (p. 129)” - Christopher Hitchens
67. “Father, we come to You, Father, in the name of the Father, Father we come to You, Father, Father, just, just, Father, Father...' You don't talk to you friends like that. 'Ed, Ed, come over, Ed, Ed, Ed, you are, Ed, Ed, Ed, Ed, Ed, Ed, ooh, Ed, Ed, Ed' - he wouldn't be your friend anymore if you did that! Like, 'You keep saying Ed...my name's Joe!” - Tim Hawkins
68. “It's my job as best friend to make sure he's not a serial killer. Or an English major, not sure which one's worse.” - Shelly Crane
69. “Ever since college, I make friends. They get married. I lose friends.” - Chuck Palahniuk
70. “If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'll never be and you need not waste time in trying.” - L.M. Montgomery
71. “In the city fields Contemplating cherry-trees...Strangers are like friends” - Issa
72. “Govinda was standing in front of him, dressed in the yellow robe of an ascetic. Sad was how Govinda looked like, sadly he asked: Why have you forsaken me? At this, he embraced Govinda, wrapped his arms around him, and as he was pulling him close to his chest and kissed him, it was not Govinda any more, but a woman, and a full breast popped out of the woman's dress, at which Siddhartha lay and drank, sweetly and strongly tasted the milk from this breast.” - Hermann Hesse
73. “And when all your faith is gone let it be me, if it's a friend you need let it be me” - Ray Lamontagne
74. “Floating there I held onto faith. Because you can't know who might cross your path or who will take your breath away. You can't know what friends might actually become sisters because they stayed by your side. You can't know when there'll be an unexpected detour that'll take you to the place where you were always meant to be.” - Holly C. Corbett
75. “I believe with all my heart that the cliches are true, that we are our own best friends and best company, and that if you're not right for yourself, it's impossible to be right for anyone.” - Rachel Machacek
76. “...that's what friends did. Let each other off the hook when they didn't want to talk.” - Lauren Dane
77. “I don't like to give up on people when they need someone not to give up on them.” - Carroll Bryant
78. “Friendship gives us the strength to turn from lambs into lions.” - Stephen Richards
79. “True friendship never questions what it costs you.” - Stephen Richards
80. “When we make friends then we change from being animals to being human.” - Stephen Richards
81. “The most valuable gift you can receive is an honest friend.” - Stephen Richards
82. “Often people that criticise your life are usually the same people that don't know the price you paid to get where you are today. True friends see the full picture of your soul.” - Shannon Alder
83. “Books have always been among my most trusted of friends, Mr. Linden replied. The best of them allow the mind to wander wherever the author's musings lead.” - Walter Dean Myers, Mr. Linden's Library
84. “And we must still try or we would be leaving our friends to fight without us. I think this is what you have meant by duty, all along; I do understand, at least this much of it.” - Naomi Novik
85. “Friends are the most important part of your life. Treasure the tears, treasure the laughter, but most importantly, treasure the memories.” - Dave Brenner
86. “Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.” - Francesco Guicciardini
87. “You be careful, Wizard. Interestingly eccentric friends aren't easy to find.” - Dean Koontz
88. “One of life's challenging realizations is that sometimes you outgrow your friends.” - Steve Maraboli
89. “Emma hung up and hugged her pillow tight to her chest. He shouldn't be making her feel this special and desired. He was just a friend. Right, just a friend. She wasn't even fooling herself anymore.” - Claire Matthews
90. “An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.” - E.A. Bucchianeri
91. “Friendship is so important. The goal of a good friendship should be for life! To keep it for life! If you find a friendship, and it gives you a joy inside, a peace, and a freedom; keep that friendship for life. Through it all, you stay together. So many friendships are toxic, but the good ones are really good! I always tell my son this, I always say, a friend is for life!” - C. JoyBell C.
92. “She raised a sharp eyebrow at him. "Vlad, no offense, but look at you. If you're not a vampire, you're clearly the most anemic goth I've ever seen."... "We believed you. Because that's what friends do."pg267 October to Vlad” - Heather Brewer
93. “In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all his facets... Hence true Friendship is the least jealous of loves. Two friends delight to be joined by a third, and three by a fourth, if only the newcomer is qualified to become a real friend. They can then say, as the blessed souls say in Dante, "Here comes one who will augment our loves." For in this love "to divide is not to take away.” - C.S. Lewis
94. “Fake friends are like shadows: always near you at your brightest moments, but nowhere to be seen at your darkest hourTrue friends are like stars, you don't always see them but they are always there.” - Habeeb Akande
95. “Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.” - G. Randolf
96. “Books, like friends, shoould be few and well-chosen.” - Samuel Paterson
97. “Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page.” - Beverly Lewis The Betrayal
98. “My Heart is Bounding! I can fly anywhere as long as I'm with the Nakama I Love!!!"~Leevy” - Hiro Mashima
99. “Enemies are often former or potential friends who have been denied - or think that they have been denied - something.” - Idries Shah
100. “If you make friends with yourself, you'll never be alone.” - Maxwell Maltz
101. “It's risky most of the time, but its better to listen to your heart.” - Jonathan Anthony Burkett
102. “their eyes are full of kindness as each feels the full effect of novelty after a short separation. They are drawing a relaxation from each other's presence, a new serenity.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald
103. “Oh, look, the lights are so pretty,” I said dreamily, having just noticedthem.I smiled at the way the lights were dancing overhead, pink and yellow andblue. I felt some pressure on my arm and thought, I should look over and seewhat’s going on, but then the thought was gone, sliding away like Jell-O off ahot car hood.“Fang?”“Yeah. I’m here.”I struggled to focus on him. “I’m so glad you’re here.”“Yeah, I got that.”“I don’t know what I’d do without you.” I peered up at him, trying to seepast the too-bright lights.“You’d be fine,” he muttered.“No,” I said, suddenly struck by how unfine I would be. “I would be totallyunfine. Totally.” It seemed very urgent that he understand this.Again I felt some tugging on my arm, and I really wondered what that wasabout. Was Ella’s mom going to start this procedure any time soon?“It’s okay. Just relax.” He sounded stiff and nervous. “Just...relax. Don’ttry to talk.”“I don’t want my chip anymore,” I explained groggily, then frowned.“Actually, I never wanted that chip.”“Okay,” said Fang. “We’re taking it out.”“I just want you to hold my hand.”“I am holding your hand.”“Oh. I knew that.” I drifted off for a few minutes, barely aware ofanything, but feeling Fang’s hand still in mine.“Do you have a La-Z-Boy somewhere?” I roused myself to ask, every word aneffort.“Um, no,” said Ella’s voice, somewhere behind my head.“I think I would like a La-Z-Boy,” I mused, letting my eyes drift shutagain. “Fang, don’t go anywhere.”“I won’t. I’m here.”“Okay. I need you here. Don’t leave me.”“I won’t.”“Fang, Fang, Fang,” I murmured, overwhelmed with emotion. “I love you. Ilove you sooo much.” I tried to hold out my arms to show how much, but Icouldn’t move them.“Oh, jeez,” Fang said, sounding strangled.” - James Patterson
104. “Karakarof spat onto the ground at Dumbledore's feet. In one swift movement, Hagrid seized the front of Karkaroff's furs, lifted him into the air, and slammed him against a nearby tree.” - J.K. Rowling
105. “No, Harry, you listen," said Hermione. "We're coming with you. That was decided months ago - years, really.” - J.K. Rowling
106. “I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely. How appropriate that I write this to myself.” - Richard Paul Evans
107. “Draugus, kurių troškau, aš nuramdžiau grodamas tau ir su tavimi tą vakarą, tai tavo veide, akyse aš juos mačiau, visus savo mylimus bičiulius, kai išėjai, išėjo ir jie su tavimi.” - Alessandro Baricco
108. “being in a bad mood with your friends beats being in a bad mood without them.” - John Green
109. “Friends might lose touch but never lose feelings” - Josh Stern
110. “If you are looking for a friend that will never change, go to the shelves, you'll find it there. It will never change and will stay the same today and forever.” - Wency June Z. Libot
111. “I'm not good at having friends. I mean, I can make myself useful to people. I can fit in. I get invited to parties and I can sit at any table I want in the cafeteria.But actually trusting someone when they have nothing to gain from me just doesn't make sense.All friendships are negotiations of power.” - Holly Black
112. “Sometimes when I see people from high school I feel trapped in a persona I maintained then,' she says. 'Ten years have gone by, a dive changed a tremendous amount - both emotionally and in circumstance. So while my oldest relationships are incredibly dear, and it's true that they know me intimately, it can be freeing to have relationships built on exactly who you are at this moment.” - Rachel Bertsche
113. “You always knew after shitty things happened, who your friends really were.” - Jodi Picoult
114. “I don't like relationships, though. I mean, it is nice and all, but I prefer to be the friend. I don't know why. They're kind of exhausting.” - abraham m. alghanem
115. “You take care of family first, friends second, and neighbors when you can.” - Janice Hardy
116. “Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other.” - Stephen E. Ambrose
117. “It was a gusty day, and from the windows of Caroline's top-floor flat, only the sky was visible with its little hurrying clouds. It was a day when being indoors was meaningful, wasting an afternoon in superior confidences with a friend before the two-barred electric heater.” - Muriel Spark
118. “You'll may not have all the things you'll want in the world, but the true love that you'll have for each other should be enough for you two to be thankful in life still.” - Jonathan Anthony Burkett
119. “I really like the thing called friendship. And I think the most fulfilling kind of friendship is the one that you stumble quite randomly upon. Unexpected and unknown. You can learn a lot about yourself from these kinds of friendships, and some last a long time while others last only for the duration of time that you have together! But then I wonder, is the length of a friendship measured by the time you are given to spend within each others' company? Or is it measured by how long into the future you can look back at the photos you took, look back and replay the adventures and the laughter in your head; still feeling like it was one of the "bestest" times of your life? Because if it's the latter, I have a thousand friends!” - C. JoyBell C.
120. “Pick the weeds and keep the flowers.” - Kelly Clarkson
121. “It seems the older we get, the tighter our inner circle becomes. When life has you down, some of those you thought had your back run, others...sometimes strangers surprise you and fill that empty space up. Oh, but life has a great balancing act and when that axle turns and you are right side up again...you will definitely not be looking for any long, lost "friends" because your inner circle is battle-tested to win!” - Sanjo Jendayi
122. “A friend drops their plans when you're in trouble, shares joy in your accomplishments, feels sad when you're in pain. A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice--but when you don't follow it, they still respect and love you.” - Doris Wild Helmering
123. “If you let life pass you by now, it won't ever come back. You don't get another chance” - danielle steel
124. “Aunt Fanny tells me you made great friends with Mr. Mottram. I'm sure he can't be very nice.''I don't think he is,' said Julia. 'I don't know that I like nice people” - Evelyn Waugh
125. “Sometimes you see someone doing something that does not fit at all with your idea of that person. You realise that, a lot of the time, you don't really know people, even one of your best friends.Instead, you get to know a little bit about that person - the little things they want to reveal, or inadvertently reveal - and then you make up a whole lot of rubbish that's your idea of the person.” - Steph Bowe
126. “They seek each other out, these people of such specific like mind. They tell of how they found the circus, how those first few steps were like magic.” - Erin Morgenstern
127. “It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.” - Sinclair Lewis
128. “I hadn’t gone to Andover, or Horace Mann or Eton. My high school had been the average kind, and I’d been the best student there. Such was not the case at Eli. Here, I was surrounded by geniuses. I’d figured out early in my college career that there were people like Jenny and Brandon and Lydia and Josh—truly brilliant, truly luminous, whose names would appear in history books that my children and grandchildren would read, and there were people like George and Odile—who through beauty and charm and personality would make the cult of celebrity their own. And then there were people like me. People who, through the arbitrary wisdom of the admissions office, might share space with the big shots for four years, might be their friends, their confidantes, their associates, their lovers—but would live a life well below the global radar. I knew it, and over the years, I’d come to accept it.And I understood that it didn’t make them any better than me.” - Diana Peterfreund
129. “adulthood is depressing. for me at least. i cried at the death of every illusion harder than i cried at the death of friends.” - Darnell Lamont Walker
130. “But it would be like going to Heaven and not finding any of your friends there. Her life would go all beatific and empty in the eyes.” - Lorrie Moore
131. “Happiness is hanging with friends who know you way more than you'd care to share.” - Todd Stocker
132. “A friend who shares is a friend who cares.” - American proverb.
133. “He shrugged. “I have a stomach thing. Don’t get close.”“Well, now you’ve spoiled everything,” I said casually, working hard to fake it. “I was planning to seduce you in the broom closet.” I pointed. “Right there.”A joyless smile appeared on Jamie’s lips. “We are far too screwed-up for a goddamned lovetriangle.”That’s my Jamie.” - Michelle Hodkin
134. “The webs spun by our existence had gracefully overlapped and knotted until you could not have one without the other. We were infinitely intertwined.” - Blakney Francis
135. “If you think people in your life are normal, then you undoubtedly have not spent any time getting to know the abnormal side of them.” - Shannon L. Alder
136. “It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.” - Philip Green
137. “Then there are the simple things. The way she fits against my side when we’re sitting together. How she can silence my addled thoughts with one look. The sound of my name from her lips. The way she can make a moment, any moment, a thousands times better when she is there. How the simplest pleasures in life become exciting with the promise of sharing the experience with her.” - Erik Tomblin
138. “Ada ruang kosong di sela-sela sebuah kata. Ada banyak omong kosong di sela-sela bicara--tapi perlu. Adalah percakapan dengan teman yang selalu bisa menjaga kewarasan, menyelamatkanku dari jemu sempurna. Di tengah carut-marut fungsi mekanistik otomatik hampir robotik sebuah industri yang menyelubungi diri dengan judul keramah-tamahan manusia, ada teman-teman--manusia yang hidup dan dekat.” - Nukila Amal
139. “I’m never sad when a friend goes far away, because whichever city or country that friend goes to, they turn the place friendly. They turn a suspicious-looking name on the map into a place where a welcome can be found. Maybe the friend will talk about you sometimes, to other friends that live around him, and then that’s almost as good as being there yourself. You’re in several places at once! In fact, my daughter, I would even go so far as to say that the further away your friends, and the more spread out they are the better your chances of going safely through the world…” - Helen Oyeyemi
140. “By surrounding yourself with people who are positive, caring, intelligent, loving, and open-minded, you create a personal environment that is conducive to your emotional and personal growth. By surrounding yourself with the opposite, you create a personal environment that is conducive to the opposite. Choose accordingly.” - Steve Maraboli
